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Medusalogue 2

by Ian Miller, Plaigiarist company member

We’ve had a lot of fun playing with the form and structure of this play and have decided there’s no need to conform to ridged type but rather create a menagerie of ideas and style. The difficultly will be making the voice of the play singular and consistent and we’re lucky to have an first hand material and two centuries to help guide our process.

I’ve very much enjoyed this process and think work shopping a script at various stages of development is critical to make ideas clear and simultaneously expansive. I recall learning about the great masters Michelangelo, Veroocchio, Bruegel, and what thriving, living things their studios were. No one artist worked on a single painting or sculpture but many hands and many voices shaped the masterpieces.  The myth of the lonely, solitary artist is a modern illusion. We live in an age that prizes the image of the auteur, the entrupenure, the outlaw over cultural identity and responsibility . The misfits and mavericks have their place but have been fetishized for too long.  Tolstoy claims that the higher up someone is, the more helpless he or she is –that all decisive momentum and inertia are in mass. A sentiment that I’m confidant he shared spiritually with the ancient art of Drama. The Wreck of the Medusa Jr.